Posted on 01/29/2015 2:17:57 PM PST by marktwain
Congressman Matt Salmon from Arizona has filed the Knife Owners Protection Act (KOPA) in the 2015 session of Congress. KOPA would extend to knives the protections afforded to firearm owners in the Firearms Owners Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986. If a person may legally own a knife where he started his travel, and may legally own it where at the end point, he would be protected in possessing it at points in between. From H.R. 419(pdf):
(a) IN GENERAL.Notwithstanding any provision ofThe law corrects some of the oversights in the FOPA legislation by explicitly protecting overnight stays, stops for fuel and food, and for any stop reasonably connected with the travel. It also allows for civil action against officials who ignore the law and arrest or prosecute individuals who are following the law, under provisions similar to 18 U.S.C. Knife Rights says this about the bill:
8 any law or any rule or regulation of the United States,
9 or of a State or any political subdivision of a State, any
10 person who is not otherwise prohibited by Federal law
1 from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a
2 knife or knives shall be entitled to transport a knife or
3 knives from any place where such person may lawfully pos-
4 sess, carry or transport such a knife or knives to any other
5 place where such person may lawfully possess, carry or
6 transport such a knife or knives if
"Originally authored by Knife Rights and first introduced by Representative Salmon in the last session of Congress, Knife Rights developed the Knife Owners' Protection Act to address this absurd situation in a commonsense manner that is fair and equitable and is based on established legislative and legal precedent," Ritter noted, "we've fought hard to defend the right to carry a knife in the individual states, cities and towns, but KOPA represents a key initiative to protect law-abiding knife owners simply passing through areas like New York City where possessing the most commonly owned pocket knife in America today, the one-hand opening folding knife, may result in arrest and prosecution."
Among the dozen or so businesses that have reported to have been targeted in New York City are Eastern Mountain Sports, Orvis, Paragon Sports, Lowe's and Home Depot. At least one out-of-state Internet retailer has been targeted.You can view one of a number of news articles and images of the DA's Thursday afternoon news conference (held after this initial Knife Rights new release was sent out) here: http://bit.ly/ar7FLT
The six-figure so-called "contributions" are being made to a "public education fund" controlled by the DA in order to secure "deferred prosecution" agreements to avoid threatened criminal charges. Additional outrageous and over-reaching demands have also apparently been made to avoid prosecution.
What we need is assault knife laws. /s
These things are just an opportunity for the FedGov to do what it does best: TYRANNY.
Ditto
Equal rights for knives with blades over 3 1/2 inches long
That’s alright, perhaps a savvy Repub could slip a repeal of the Hughes Amendment in there.
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